Released a service pack for SLES 11 SP3
The final version of the set Service Pack 3 was released for the corporate operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. Among the many new features and bug fixes, SP3 also offers support for new hardware to the operating system. Recall that the SLES 11 for about one and a half years ago, moved to a new kernel Linux 3.0, offering a different approach to the construction of the system. Support for Linux 3.0 was implemented in SP2, released in February 2012.
Matthias Eckermann, senior manager of product management for SUSE Linux Enterprise, says that the new version of the hotfix package contains an updated kernel Linux, which supports up to 4096 virtual processors on a single physical server, and can address up to 16 terabytes of physical memory on the server. "As far as I know, now in the world there is no single physical server, which would correspond to these characteristics, no one has ever tested on such a large Linux machines. Such approaches to scaling become important when you are working with databases larger than 64 tebarayt and you need to provide a very fast physical access to information, "- he said.
While in SUSE say theoretically kernels for Itanium and Power can address more memory - up to 1 petabyte, and IBM System Z mainframe to 4 terabytes on a car. In addition, the package SP3 supports the latest eight-core processors Power7 +, which came less than a year ago. Moreover, in theory and kernel supports booting to an as yet unreleased chips IBM Power 8.
As for the chips x86, then the SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 support the new processors Intel Haswell, and have not yet released Xeon E7-based microkernel Ivy Bridge-EX.
As virtualizers to apply SP3 KVM 1.4 and Xen 4.2, KVM and now supports up to 160 virtual CPU and up to 2 TB of memory on the guest section. Limits on the number of guest partitions in theory no, they are limited mobility equipment. Also, the OS has improved support for Microsoft Hyper-V at the protocol level, and virtual links, which simplifies the coexistence of Linux and Windows 8 / Server 2012 R2.
Introduced in SP3 and file system support Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2). Earlier there was a support SUSE other modern FS, in particular ReiserFS 3.6, XFS and BtrFS.
In SUSE say just SP3 adds support for 70 new families of drivers in the kernel is included to support new processors and chipsets, support for Fibre Channel adapters 8 and 16 Gb / s, the system is implemented Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 1.5.4 ( open source driver for InfiniBand), and happy to Ethernet-adapters are now working with the support mode RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access).
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